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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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BetterWorks--headed by prolific angel investor Paige Craig--apparently was not able to sustain a large enough market, relative to its high costs of customer acquisition. SpaceX Plans Launch Site In Texas - In April, SpaceX announced plans to set up a launch. We have no idea. its launch to the International Space Station).

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8 Tactics To Make You A Fearless Business Innovator

Startup Professionals Musings

Every business owner and entrepreneur I meet in my consulting rounds dreams of finding that “ disruptive ” innovation that will supercharge their business and move it into the ranks of business unicorns (billion-dollar valuations), such as SpaceX and Apple. If you don’t keep it top of mind today, then you are going to be left behind.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Josef Gorowitz , Swagbucks (Torrance, online marketing/rewards). Amanda MacNaughton , PromoJam (Glendale, marketing software). Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Adam Goldenberg , Intelligent Beauty/JustFab (El Segundo, fashion).

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Interview with Matt Kozlov, Techstars Space Accelerator

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Companies like SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab are making access to space easy, with private launch capabilities that never existed before. If you look at SpaceX, they recently put 63 satellites into orbit on one rocket, which is a new record. We also have companies where space is not the only commercial market for them.

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Inspiring College Entrepreneurship | With lessons from Y Combinator and Elon Musk

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The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. Zhang shares his thoughts about Los Angeles, incubator programs, and more. What is LavaLab/what is the vision? What is LavaLab/what is the vision?